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• Standards Australia unwraps e-waste standard for ANZ

  A new standard has been published for safe and environmentally sound handling of electronic waste in Australia and New Zealand.

• Study to assess barriers to teleworking

  Cisco and the University of Melbourne want to know why more Australian and New Zealand businesses and government bodies aren’t teleworking.

• Privacy commissioners seek greater power as breaches increase

  Privacy commissioners of Australia and New Zealand said they need more enforcement authority to combat data breaches and other privacy concerns.

• Australia leading in APAC cloud adoption: F5

  Australia leads other countries in the Asia Pacific on cloud adoption, according to F5 senior director, Mohan Veloo. But most companies are keeping their critical data on premise, he told Computerworld Australia at the F5 Agility Forum on the Sunshine Coast.

• F5 moves beyond load balancing, into security

  F5 plans to bear down on the security and cloud markets in Australia and New Zealand, F5 officials said at the F5 Agility Forum on the Sunshine Coast.

• NZ Govt approves Telecom assets split

  The New Zealand Government has approved the first major step in Telecom’s proposed demerger process, following the decision to agree to the national telco’s plan to split its assets after structural separation.

• New Zealand government reveals cybersecurity strategy

  Less than a week after the Australian Federal Government announced plans for a [[artnid:388907|Cyber White Paper|new]], New Zealand authorities
  have followed suit with a cybersecurity strategy.

• NZ education networks signs to Pacific Fibre

  New Zealand’s government-owned education fibre network has signed on as anchor tenant to the $US400 million Pacific Fibre submarine cable venture, significantly boosting the service provider’s international capacity.

• NZ Government moves to cut mobile rates

  New Zealand's Commerce Commission has cut wholesale mobile termination rates in an effort to open up the country's telecommunications market amid fears that current rates are hampering competition.

• New Zealand Parliament denies DDoS attack

  The New Zealand Government has denied reports of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the New Zealand Parliament website over the weekend, despite cyber activist group Anonymous claiming responsibility for outages.

• Three strikes file sharing bill passed in New Zealand

  The Australian entertainment industry may still be in talks with internet service providers (ISPs) about movie privacy but in New Zealand, some groups are celebrating the passing of an illegal file sharing bill.
  

• Telcos and data centre providers rally in Christchurch, NZ

  As the recovery of Christchurch, New Zealand, continues in the wake of last week’s earthquake, telecommunication providers and data centre operators in the country have re-established operations and are now fund raising for victims.

• Kiwi dataminer looks for Sydney partner

  New Zealand-based business intelligence company, Datamine, is preparing to ramp up its trans-Tasman presence by wooing potential Sydney suitors.

• Pike River NZ mine robot reconnaissance hits snag

  A military robot sent into the collapsed Pike River mine on New Zealand’s West Coast to survey conditions for the 29 trapped miners has broken down, mine officials have said.

• NSW developed technology leads to 'oarsome' performance

  A computerised oar that allows rowing coaches to scientifically analyse the performance of their rowing squads was unveiled at the World Rowing Championships in New Zealand recently.